Protected: The Leo Altar
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The Sun
The first appearance of the Angry Sun was in Super Mario Bros. 3, the Quicksand level. It shoots out flaming rays until about halfway through the level, when the Angry Sun swoops down into a U-formation to attack our poor plumber friends. It returns in level 8-2, the Dark Land, where it jumps out from […]
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Midsummer & the Queen of Wands
Do you believe in magic? What even is magic? The dictionary defines it as “the power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces.” Wikipedia says that its “an ancient practice rooted in rituals, spiritual divinations and/or cultural lineage—with an intention to invoke, manipulate, or otherwise manifest supernatural forces, beings, […]
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The High Priestess
Gnosticism was a philosophical movement of the 2nd Century Christian Church, one with very uncertain origins and most likely originated in ancient Rome and Persia. Christians, much like today, worshipped one God while Gnostics worshipped two and sometimes more deities. According to Gnostic teachings, Christ was conceived as having two aspects: a male half, the […]
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The Magician
Sparked by the Ionians, those Greeks living in Persia along the Aegean Coast in Asia Minor, the Greeks and the Persians fought for centuries. This rebellion spanned the course of two separate conflicts, one against King Darius of Persia and the other, his son Xerxes. Although the Ionian Rebellion was crushed, the King’s ego got […]
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The Empress
In a chariot drawn by a set of steeds as black as coal, the lord of the underworld took Persephone by the wrist and insisted through her tears that she become his wife. “The lord of the dark underworld, the king of the multitudinous dead, carried her off when, enticed by the wonderous bloom of […]
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The Tower
We humans like to think very highly of ourselves, sometimes to the point of megalomania. It is during these moments when our egos could stand to be reeled in a bit. In biblical literature Genesis tells us a story about the building of the Tower of Babel, one in which fueled by pride, men felt […]
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Pisces New Moon
Have you ever laid down on the shore and let the waves come crashing down over you? It’s almost as if you could seemingly become one with the ocean, slowly drifting out into the sea, and then dipping over the horizon. This is the Piscean realm, “liquid, flowing symbol of the unutterable mystery that binds […]
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Leo Full Moon & Lantern Festival
The Chinese New Year culminates every year with the celebration known as the Lantern Festival, the holiday marking the first full moon of the year. Streets are decorated with lanterns, often with riddles on them to be solved for small gifts. People nosh on sweet rice balls as they watch dragon and lion dances and […]
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Aquarius New Moon
Every time we have a new moon we are gifted with the opportunity to interact with the zodiacal archetype in which the moon is sailing through in a novel way, one that may aid us in beginning this new chapter of our lives. Moons do not carry a light of their own. What we see […]
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